The Herald of Tuesday says: The visit of a Chinese squadron to Sydney would undoubtedly be a novelty. Such an event has been mooted, but the Chinese, like the Turks, are not much ...
Article : 238 wordsSIR,—I have been greatly amused lately by reading your Blackville Correspondent's reply to "Fair Play," and I may also add greatly surprised that such personal remarks are allowed to appear in ...
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Advertising : 483 wordsThe Bishop of Oxford (Dr. Stubbs) commenced his primary visitation of the diocese on June 4 in the Cathedral, Christchurch, and it was attended by a very large number of the clergy. This age ...
Article : 648 wordsSeveral years before the the war, and before there were any railroads in Arkansaw, when the Whigs and Democrats were ever ready to go down to the sand bar and burn powder for the sake of ...
Article : 1,041 wordsYou sometimes see a woman whose old age is as exquisite as was the perfect bloom of her youth. She seems condensed sweetness and grace. You wonder how this has come about; you wonder how ...
Article : 243 wordsIn the import markets on Monday there was a moderate business. The demand for breadstuffs was restricted. As the latest London news before the break of the cable was to the effect that the ...
Article : 496 wordsMr. Molloy, M.P., who has lately paid a visit to Australia, has recently patented an ingenious invention for the extraction of gold from ore, in which electricity is a chief factor. By his ...
Article : 452 wordsSIR,—In your issue of the 12th inst a letter appears from someone signing himself "Your Blackville Correspondent," attempting (but failing, miserably) to refute mine of the 1st inst. For ...
Article : 478 wordsA strange story of a Florida mayor is being told in the American papers. The candidate for the mayoralty of Cedar Keys, in Florida, informed the leading citizens frankly that if he did not make a ...
Article : 308 wordsThe physical powers of the Lycoside, the popular running, ground, or wolf spiders, are well illustrated by an instance recorded in the proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, ...
Article : 363 wordsIn the course of an article by Mrs. Aria, on "How Women Shop," in the June number of the Woman's World, we are told of the hollowness of the excuses which ladies make for not buying ...
Article : 544 wordsWheat, per bushel, 8s to 3s 3d; maize, ditt[?], 2a 3d to 2s 6d; hay, lucerne, per ton,£2 5s to £2 15s; ditto, wheaten and oaten, ditto, £3 10s to £4; potatoes, per cwt., 5s to 6s; onions, ditto, ...
Article : 294 wordsSIR,—Some of the remarks passed at the above were amusing. Here is a specimen. The Rev. W. Hill is reported in Tuesday's Mercury as saying: "He thought the best friends of Roman Catholics ...
Article : 101 wordsMr. R. Stevenson, M.L.A. for Wollombi, having received the following communication from the Works Department, we print contents for the information of our readers:— ...
Article : 148 wordsThe natural soap mines of Owens Lake, Cal., are thus accounted for by one of the Company now working them. He says that the waters of the lake contain a strong solution of borax and soda. In these ...
Article : 194 wordsSIR,—Conflicting rumours are abroad as to the resignation of the hon. member for West Maitland. The metropolitan press informs the electors a local gentleman has definitely settled to contest the ...
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